Preamble

The House met at Eleven o'Clock

PRAYERS

[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]

MEMBERS SWORN

Mr. Speaker: Will Members desirous of taking and subscribing the Oath please come to the Table? Members who are sitting above the Gangway, on both sides of the House, will come first.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Evelyn Nigel Chetwode Birch, esquire, West Flint.

William Traven Aitken, esquire, Bury St. Edmunds.

Francis George Bowles, esquire, Nuneaton.

Aubrey Jones, esquire, Birmingham, Hall Green.

Ellis Smith, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, South.

Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather, esquire, North Somerset.

Fred Longden, esquire, Birmingham, Small Heath.

John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, esquire. Reigate.

Commander Harry Pursey, Kingston-upon-Hull, East.

Anthony Richard Hurd, esquire, Newbury.

Edward Lancelot Mallalieu, esquire, K.C., Brigg.

Austen Harry Albu, esquire, Edmonton.

Ronald Donald Scott, esquire, Penrith and the Border.

Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers, esquire, Winchester.

Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas, esquire, Lincoln.

William Griffiths, esquire, Manchester, Exchange.

Arthur Douglas Dodds-Parker, esquire, Banbury.

Cyril Wilson Black, esquire, Wimbledon.

Sir William Harold Webbe, C.B.E., Cities of London and Westminster.

Colonel Sir Fergus Frederick Graham, baronet, Darlington.

Derek Colclough Walker-Smith, esquire, Hertford.

Ernest Partridge, esquire, Battersea, South.

Thomas O'Brien, esquire, Nottingham, North-West.

Arthur Seymour Moody, esquire, Gateshead, East.

Colonel Oliver Eyre Crosthwaite-Eyre, New Forest.

Daniel Granville West, esquire, Pontypool.

Robert Alexander Allan, esquire, D.S.O., O.B.E., Paddington, South.

Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, esquire, Battersea, North.

Samuel Sydney Silverman, esquire, Nelson and Colne.

George Harold Oliver, esquire, K.C., Ilkeston.

Frank Beswick, esquire, Uxbridge.

James Johnson, esquire, Rugby.

Horace Maybray King, esquire, Southampton, Test.

Antony Claud Frederick Lambton, commonly called Viscount Lambton, Berwick-upon-Tweed.

John Parker, esquire, Dagenham.

Richard Oliver Stanley, esquire, commonly called the honourable Richard Oliver Stanley, North Fylde.

William Thomas Wells, esquire, Walsall.

Percy Laurence Wells, esquire, Faversham.

George Jeger, esquire, Goole.

Freda Kunzlen Corbet, Camberwell, Peckham.

Frank Tomney, esquire, Hammersmith, North.

John Freeman, esquire, M.B.E., Watford.

Martin Alexander Lindsay, esquire. D.S.O., Solihull

George Darling, esquire, Sheffield, Hillsborough.

Roy Harris Jenkins, esquire, Birmingham, Stechford.

Charles Anthony Raven Crosland, esquire, South Gloucestershire.

Octavius George Willey, esquire, Cleveland.

John Adrian Hope, commonly called Lord John Adrian Hope, Edinburgh, Pentlands.

Walter Henry Ayles, esquire, Hayes and Harlington.

John Grimston, esquire, commonly called the honourable John Grimston, St. Albans.

Colonel Leonard Ropner, M.C., T.D., Barkston Ash.

Sir Joseph Stanley Holmes, Harwich.

Norman Noel Dodds, esquire, Dartford.

William Waldorf Astor, esquire, commonly called the honourable William Waldorf Astor, Wycombe.

Walter Robert Dempster Perkins, esquire, Stroud and Thornbury.

Patrick William Donner, esquire, Basingstoke.

Iorwerth Rhys Thomas, esquire, Rhondda, West.

Howard Sydney Johnson, esquire, Brighton, Kemptown.

John Anthony Langford-Holt, esquire, Shrewsbury.

William James Field, esquire, Paddington, North.

Reginald Maudling, esquire, Barnet.

Arthur Beverley Baxter, esquire, Southgate.

Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport, Knutsford.

Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, esquire, Mid-Bedfordshire.

Sydney Scholefield Allen, esquire, K.C., Crewe.

Right honourable Wilfred Paling, Dearne Valley.

Richard Charles Brooman-White, esquire, Rutherglen.

Maurice Orbach, esquire, Willesden, East.

Archibald Fenner Brockway, esquire, Eton and Slough.

Harold Anthony Nutting, esquire, Melton. Isaac James Pitman, esquire, Bath.

Joseph Percival William Mallalieu, esquire, Huddersfield, East.

William Thomas Paling, esquire, Dewsbury.

Reginald Thomas Paget, esquire, K.C., Northampton.

Irene Mary Bentinck Ward. C.B.E., Tyne-mouth.

Group Captain Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock, O.B.E., A.F.C., Derby, North.

Percy Holman, esquire, Bethnal Green.

Right honourable Ralph Assheton, Blackburn, West

Frederick Elwyn Jones, esquire, West Ham, South.

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, esquire, Coventry, East.

Norman Harold Lever, esquire, Manchester, Cheetham.

Frederick Frank Arthur Burden, esquire, Gillingham.

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn till Tuesday next, 6th November, at 11 o'clock."—[Mr. Crookshank.]

Adjourned accordingly at Twenty-three Minutes to Three o'Clock.